Tom,

Pre-millenial dispensationalism, with its emphasis on a "rapture" of the saints seven years before the coming of the Lord to a earthly kingdom did have its origins at about 1830.

It was preached by the Irvingites and the Plymouth Bretheran after a "prophetic trance session" of Charismatics by one Margaret McDonald in Glasgow, Scotland.

Pre-millenialism and a future Antichrist or Chialism was extremely emphasized by the Roman Catholic Church to "take the heat off" because the reformers were rightfully (my view) calling the pope Antichrist. Calling the pope Antichrist is embedded in the Westminster Confession. (Chapter XXV, VI) 1646

Chiliasm is the belief that Christ will return to establish a kingdom of peace on this earth for one thousand years. Chiliasm did have other speculative roots in Munster and the Anabaptists, but I believe that the best refutation was penned by John Calvin in a commentary on I Thess. 4:17.

"To those who have been gathered to Christ he promisses eternal life with Him, by which statements the reveries of Origen and of the Chiliasts are abundantly refuted. For the life of believers, when they have once been gathered into one kingdom, will have no end any more than Christ's. Now, to assign to Christ a thousand years, so that He would afterwards cease to reign, were too horrible to be made mention of."

Calvin elaborated in the Institutes III,25,5,

"Those who assign only a thousand years to the children of God to enjoy the inheritance of future life, observe not how great an insult they offer to Christ and His kingdom."

Denny

Roms: 3:22-24

Denny

Simon Peter answered Him, "Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life." [John 6:68]